on a meta level...

> because I don't want to mess this up.

I don't think you have to worry much about this.

My experience with Perl installation trees on Win is that they are easy to copy and even transfer to other machines.

So I'd say make a backup, test it's reliability and zip it.

Than simply try out your upgrade scenarios and test again.

In case of problems just restore the backup.

> All comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

HTH! :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

update

> I have quite a few non-core modules (over 6,500) to preserve between versions.

which makes a valid backup mechanism even more urgent.

In reply to Re: Upgrading Strawberry Perl While Preserving Non-Core Modules by LanX
in thread Upgrading Strawberry Perl While Preserving Non-Core Modules by roho

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